What is the range of damages for defamation damages in defamation cases?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Wilson v HMTQ, 2019 BCSC 1049 (CanLII):
Special damages, in the context of the law of defamation, have been defined as any material or temporal loss, which is either a pecuniary loss or is capable of being estimated in money, including business loss or loss of employment income; see Pootlass v. Pootlass, 1999 CanLII 6665 (BC SC), [1999] 63 B.C.L.R. (3d) 305 (S.C.), at para. 65.
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